flaviaman
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A friend asked me to take her bored 8yo son, Henri, aka L’enfant terrible, for a short drive this weekend.
Mother was somewhat dismayed with my response to her question “how many airbags does it have.....
I was them instructed to strap Henri in, Henri had never been in a car with static seatbelts and quickly proclaimed:
“these are just like an airplane,this car must be very fast”!
The next question was “where is the window switch?”
followed shortly by
”Where is the radio?”
I was expecting him to ask about a USB port but instead he asked if it had “an automatic antenna like your black car?” I have an old 308 and an electric antenna controlled by a toggle switch, this was factory fitment. Much to my annoyance Henri takes great delight in playing with it.
10 minutes later I return Henri to his mom and he quickly tells her “we went 87 mph!“. I have no idea how he arrived at that number, in reality it was about half that. To achieve 87mph in a Coupe, even with the lusty 903 unit, one either needs a long straight, preferably downhill, or else to be ejected from the cargo bay of a C130.
Being a bachelor to the best of my knowledge I have never fathered a kid, I am constantly amazed at what comes out of their months...
Mother was somewhat dismayed with my response to her question “how many airbags does it have.....
I was them instructed to strap Henri in, Henri had never been in a car with static seatbelts and quickly proclaimed:
“these are just like an airplane,this car must be very fast”!
The next question was “where is the window switch?”
followed shortly by
”Where is the radio?”
I was expecting him to ask about a USB port but instead he asked if it had “an automatic antenna like your black car?” I have an old 308 and an electric antenna controlled by a toggle switch, this was factory fitment. Much to my annoyance Henri takes great delight in playing with it.
10 minutes later I return Henri to his mom and he quickly tells her “we went 87 mph!“. I have no idea how he arrived at that number, in reality it was about half that. To achieve 87mph in a Coupe, even with the lusty 903 unit, one either needs a long straight, preferably downhill, or else to be ejected from the cargo bay of a C130.
Being a bachelor to the best of my knowledge I have never fathered a kid, I am constantly amazed at what comes out of their months...
